Critics say UMN admins overpaid, too numerous

A Minnesota Daily article about campus consternation over University of Minnesota administrative salaries, possible administrative bloat and confusion over who does exactly what job, quotes regent Steve Sviggum questioning the system:

“Does every school need its own communications staff? Does every school need its own fundraising staff? Does every school need its own … human resources staff? … When you start looking at aggregate, the number and the salaries, and then the assistants and the legislative assistants, you have to start shaking your head a little bit.”

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.